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On the free-radical reaction of primary alcohols with formaldehyde

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The reaction of primary alcohols with formalin or paraformaldehyde initiated by t-butyl peroxide in a glass apparatus under atmospheric pressure leads to the formation of alkane-1,2-diols.

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  1. N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    G. I. Nikishin, D. Lefort & V. D. Vorob'ev

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  1. G. I. Nikishin
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  2. D. Lefort
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  3. V. D. Vorob'ev
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Co-worker at the French National Center of Scientific Research (Laboratoire de Lipochimie, CNRS, Paris).

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1271–1272, July, 1966.

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Nikishin, G.I., Lefort, D. & Vorob'ev, V.D. On the free-radical reaction of primary alcohols with formaldehyde. Russ Chem Bull 15, 1226–1227 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00847774

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